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128TH ANNUAL REPORT +FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2013 - 2014 TENNIS NEW ZEALAND VISION Our Vision Is for New Zealand to Consider Itself a ‘Tennis Nation’

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128TH ANNUAL REPORT +FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2013 - 2014 TENNIS NEW ZEALAND VISION Our Vision Is for New Zealand to Consider Itself a ‘Tennis Nation’ TENNIS NEW ZEALAND’S 128TH ANNUAL REPORT +FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2013 - 2014 TENNIS NEW ZEALAND VISION Our vision is for New Zealand to consider itself a ‘Tennis Nation’. By this we mean that tennis is common in the lives of New Zealanders; tennis is being played in clubs, schools, parks and on beaches; tennis coaches are well trained and offer coaching to a consistently high standard; vibrant tennis clubs offer world class programs that attract a wide range of participants; Kiwis are competing at professional tournaments being hosted locally and abroad and; international events are broadcast nationally and internationally on television. LIFE MEMBERS Miss K M Nunneley* Mr F S Ramson* Mr M E Denniston* Mr G C Reid* Mr G N Goldie* Mr S Painter* Mr J C Peacock* Mr D C Coombe* Mr F H Woodward* Mr O Parun OBE Mr W Goss* Mr C J Lewis Mr A G Henderson* Mr J E Robson MBE Mr R Browning* Mr I D Wells OBE* Mr G Gore* Mr B N Shute ONZM Mr P Harrison* Mrs B Cordwell Mr H M Boddington* Mr J Simpson Mr J Mercer* Mr P Wilson ONZM Mr S A Cleal* Mr B Steven Mr H S Wilkinson* Mrs R Morrison MBE *Deceased PRESIDENT: BOARD OF DIRECTORS: FINANCE & Celia Patrick Celia Patrick (Chair) AUDIT COMMITTEE: Murray Davies (Deputy Chair) Don Lyon (Chair) HONORARY Brett Steven Brendon Smith VICE-PRESIDENT: Andrew Pascoe David Searle Russell Parkinson Don Lyon Brendon Smith Jan Shearer STAFF Steve Johns Chief Executive Officer Jamie Tong Head of Participation & Coaching Jenny Lovegrove Participation Programs Manager Jan Shearer Head of Performance Roger Watson Finance Administrator Chris Raynes IT Support Amy March Program Support Administrator Lan Bale High Performance Coach Marcel Vos High Performance Coach Daniel Shepherd National Events Coordinator (resigned effective August 2014) Avan Polo Commercial & Marketing Manager (resigned effective August 2014) AUDITORS Deloitte LAWYERS Maria Clark Lawyers | 01 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS What's ahead for the 2014/15 year and our priorities as a Board. In my work life one of the leadership principles that has In this regard, it is still early days in the delivery of our guided my approach to working with many different High Performance, Coaching and Participation strategies, teams over the years, is the role that leaders have in and as a Board, our guidance and oversight to Steve and shaping people's outlook for what is possible. In this the Tennis New Zealand management team is to ensure regard, it's important in my mind that leaders show that delivery of these reflects operational excellence in respect for the past, are realistic about the present, and delivery. This means listening to and working closely with are positive about the future of their organisation and all tennis stakeholders across the sport to ensure we land what can be achieved. I've found these values just as these well, they support and complement the work across relevant for my role in tennis, as they are in other aspects the wider club and region grass roots efforts, and over of what I do. I've borrowed a little of this perspective in the coming years become key contributors to longer term sharing my observations on our priorities as a sport in my success for tennis. first annual report as Chair. While we have an affiliated membership in the order Steve John's CEO report that follows this introduction, of 40,000 we also have a responsibility to attract and talks about the recent past and provides a pretty communicate more effectively with those several comprehensive summary of a busy year, it's highlights and hundred thousand other people who play or want to the progress we are making in taking our three strategies play tennis but are not part of our formal membership of High Performance, Coaching and Participation to structure. market. We have started to have this conversation around the LOOKING FORWARD table with Regional Chairs and CEOs this last year - we've talked about the need to promote our sport more So rather than cover the same ground, I'm going to take proactively in all forms of media, be more digitally present this opportunity to talk a little about what's ahead for and accessible, and make it easier for people who want the 2014/15 year, and some of our priorities as a Board. to play on their own terms to have the opportunity We are still in the early days of delivering the three to. There's still much more to do on this front, but I'm previously mentioned strategies, alongside our strategy optimistic that we are focussing in the right areas, and of Sustainability and Performance Excellence. While we with the collective support across the country we can need to be realistic about how much can be achieved make some good headway on "growing and mining" this in the early years of implementation, we should be largely un-tapped part of the overall tennis community. ambitious about our expectations of delivering these exceptionally well. Underpinning everything we are looking to achieve is the need for tennis to be financially sustainable at all levels. This has featured as another significant topic over the year between TNZ and the regions and clubs. | 02 TENNIS NEW ZEALAND | 128TH ANNUAL REPORT & FINANCIAL STATEMENTS | 2013 2014 MARINA ERAKOVIC: #25 CAREER HIGH DOUBLES RANKING (2013) We are at the early stages of collectively investigating A special mention goes to Peggy Temu from the Jellicoe options to support a more financially sustainable business Tennis Club who took home the 2013/14 Volunteer of the model for regional facilities, and likewise a membership Year Award and who's absolute passion and commitment model that is more in line with current and future to tennis in her club and community is a testament to her needs. Again it's early days, but these are two important positive and bubbly can-do attitude. foundations in building a more financially robust future for our sport, which is heavy on infrastructure and Well done and thanks to Steve Johns and team for a challenged by the costs to maintain it. full year which has covered a broad range of activities from strategy development, introduction of key An important element of our future financial programmes including Tennis Hot Shots through to sustainability is linked to our ability to attract and retain building relationships to support future sponsorship sponsors, and to develop long term mutually beneficial opportunities. relationships. We've taken some small steps on this front over the latter part of the year, however as a Board When David Patterson stepped down at last years AGM we know we need to do much better in the future to after many years commitment to the Board of Tennis leverage our existing tennis properties and products to New Zealand, he shared what a privilege it had been to create additional value and profile for our sport. have had the opportunity to contribute to the sport as a member of the Board and over more recent years, as On this note, I'd like to close with some Chair. This year Brett Steven steps down from the Board acknowledgements, starting with thanking all our having also made a significant contribution over the last sponsors who support tennis in New Zealand including: six years to tennis. Configure Express, Gardena, Slazenger Dunlop, Sport New Zealand, Lion Foundation, ASB Community Trust, I'd like to thank both David and Brett for the difference New Zealand Community Trust, Pub Charity, and the they have made to our sport, and likewise to the rest of Southern Trust. the Tennis New Zealand Board, Brendon, Don, Murray, Andrew and Jan. A big thanks for the commitment you In a sport reliant upon the goodwill of volunteers and have made over the year, and your support in my first employees committing so much of their personal selves year as Chair. to make a difference in communities and for the wider sport, there are many acknowledgements to make, but It is a real pleasure and privilege to work with such not enough space to cover the field here. We highlighted passionate, positive and skilled people. many great examples of people who are making a difference in tennis at our recent TNZ Annual Awards Celia Patrick evening with a full list of this year's award winners Chair featured on pages 16 & 17 of this report. TENNIS NEW ZEALAND | 128TH ANNUAL REPORT & FINANCIAL STATEMENTS | 2013 2014 | 03 REPORT OF THE CEO If last year was to be described as a year of development, with the creation of three new strategies for High Performance, Participation and Coaching, then the 2014 year can be described as the year of implementation. The year commenced with the roll-out of the individual On the coaching front, the number of registered coaches initiatives contained within each of these three exciting has increased from last year as more and more coaches new strategies. It is often said that writing the strategy see the benefit and value of being a Tennis NZ Registered is the easy part; successfully implementing it is the real Coach. The new online registration platform has challenge. significantly streamlined this process and will be the first of many other IT projects that we will roll out over the To this end, I believe that throughout the 2013/14 year coming 12 months. Coach development continues to be we have overcome some big challenges, stuck to the a key focus for Tennis NZ with a full review of the existing roadmap and have been successful in implementing some Coach Development Framework undertaken over the past significant changes to the way in which we do business 12 months and the new Learning Facilitator roles, that will that will undoubtedly pay dividends in the future, if not lead the delivery of coach education going forward, being already.
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